Captain Commando — stories left

The game, which took No. 7 in the grand prize category of the "6th Gamest Awards" (for 1992), was later ported to home game consoles (#Reception, #Ports).

In the "Gamest Awards" No. 6 (1992) run by the game magazine Gamest, it took No. 7 in the grand prize category by reader vote.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the four reviewers gave 6, 6, 5, and 4, for a total of 21. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 18.9 out of 30, as shown below.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the game magazine Famitsu, it scored a total of 22.

The game stars the titular superhero, who was originally conceived as a fictional spokesman used by Capcom USA in the company's console games during the late 1980s.

A Sega CD port for the game was planned, but was cancelled.

Each game's instruction manual also featured a "Special Message" from the Captain addressed to the owner of the game, congratulating the player for purchasing one of Capcom's products.

The text above the artwork featured a message from the Captain advising the reader to "look to (him) for up-to-date reports for all the exciting action games from Capcom", followed by the Captain's apparent handwritten signature.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Captain Commando on their December 1, 1991 issue as being the most-popular arcade game for the previous two weeks.

The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game nineteenth in popularity in its February 1992 issue.

A PlayStation port was released in Japan only on September 17, 1998, by New Inc. This port allows up to three players with the use of a multiplayer adapter (4 players with Cheat / GameShark).

A Sega CD port for the game was planned, but was cancelled.